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Watch 3-D Movie of your Own mind with a Camera Developed By Researchers

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A team of doctors have written software that creates dynamic, real-time, three-dimensional colour movies of the brain.

“We usually think of cameras as looking out at the world. This is a new kind of camera. It gives you a window on your mind,” the Globe and Mail quoted Mark Doidge, from Toronto, as saying.

Dr. Mark Doidge, left, is in the process of attempting to map the human brain. Mechanical engineering student Art de Guzman, who is working for Doidge, wears a cap connected to 32 leads which measures surface voltage related to electrical brain activity during a demonstration at Doidge's Toronto iffice on January 27 2011. - Dr. Mark Doidge, left, is in the process of attempting to map the human brain. Mechanical engineering student Art de Guzman, who is working for Doidge, wears a cap connected to 32 leads which measures surface voltage related to electrical brain activity during a demonstration at Doidge's Toronto iffice on January 27 2011. | Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail

The “camera” adapts an algorithm known as eLORETA, amplifies EEG signals from 32 electrodes attached to the cerebral cortex, and converts them into colour-coded movies of neuronal activity.

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